Nonradial Flow Runner Patents (Class 415/208.5)
  • Patent number: 11408431
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fan. The fan includes a support, a first motor, a first blade, a second motor, a second blade and an electronic control board. The first motor and the second motor are both installed on the support. The first motor is coaxial with the second motor. The first motor has a first rotation shaft and the second motor has a second rotation shaft. The first blade is installed on the first rotation shaft. The second blade is installed on the second rotation shaft. A torsion direction of the first blade is opposite to a torsion direction of the second blade. The electric control board is electrically connected to the first motor and the second motor, and includes a speed ratio adjustment device. The fan can provide a variety of air outlet modes and can quickly adjust between different air outlet modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Inventors: Runming Guo, Shiqiang Cui, Yongqiang Wu, Xusheng Zhang, Yu Fang, Ruixiang Kang, Rong Yi
  • Patent number: 11362607
    Abstract: A motor unit comprises a motor controller, a motor, and a Hall sensor, where the motor controller is used for driving the motor. The motor controller comprises a switch circuit, a control unit, a phase signal generating unit, and an operational amplifier. The control unit generates a plurality of control signals to control the switch circuit. The motor comprises a rotor, a silicon steel plate, and a coil. To increase a success rate of starting a forward rotation, the silicon steel plate may have an asymmetrical structure, such that a fan blade is inclined to a forward rotation direction in a still state. When a Hall voltage is zero, the motor controller may start the motor and switch phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Global Mixed-mode Technology Inc.
    Inventor: Guang-Nan Tzeng
  • Patent number: 11143161
    Abstract: A wind power generation device includes a wind blocking structure, which is in a box-shaped structure fixed on ground by a bottom plane thereof; a wind vane rotating body including a rotating shaft and vanes fixed on the rotating shaft and arranged at equal angle intervals, wherein the rotating shaft is mounted on two bearings of the wind blocking structure, and the vanes are rotatable inside the box-shaped structure; a power generator connected to the rotating shaft and fixed on the box-shaped structure by a linking plate. When wind blows to the wind blocking structure to rotate the wind vane rotating body, the power generator is driven by the rotating shaft to generate electrical power. The wind power generation device can include at least two wind vane rotating bodies, or area enlarging structures added on the vanes, to increase windward areas of the vanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chin-Guo Kuo, Jung-Hsuan Chen, Chao-Fu Shu, Ya-Chiao Liu
  • Patent number: 10808621
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine nacelle assembly according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a core casing defined about an axis; a fan nacelle mounted at least partially around the core nacelle; and a support structure extending radially from the core nacelle to the fan nacelle, wherein the support structure has a leading edge that is swept.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Brent Veiga
  • Patent number: 8961124
    Abstract: An axial fan is provided. The axial fan includes a hub, an impeller having a plurality of blades mounted on an outer peripheral surface of the hub, and a housing surrounding the impeller. Each of the blades has a front edge angle (?) within a range of ?8° to ?20°, a mounting angle (?) within a range of 36° to 50°, and a twisted angle (?) within a range of 10°±2°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takako Fukuda, Masaki Ogushi, Yoichi Kawai, Naoya Ohki
  • Publication number: 20140241873
    Abstract: A fluid powered turbine, such as a wind turbine (10), has a hollow column (12) in which a rotating turbine is housed. A fluid directing structure (14) is supported at or near an end of the column (12) remote from the turbine. The fluid directing structure (14) has a plurality of individual inlet openings (26) spaced around its periphery and is arranged to direct air at each inlet opening into an inner pipe (18). The incoming air is constricted both within the structure (14) and as it exits the column (12) whereby its speed is sufficient to rotate the turbine (20). The structure at the top of the column (12) generally requires no maintenance and maintenance of the turbine (20) is considerably easier than with traditional wind generators as access is easy. As the turbine is enclosed, it is safer than the traditional wind generators and less noisy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventor: Rajeshwar Rao Degala
  • Patent number: 8690523
    Abstract: A fluid flow machine includes a main flow path which is confined by a hub (3) and a casing (1) and in which at least one row of blades (5) is arranged, with a blade end with gap being provided on the blade row, with the blade end and the main flow path confinement performing a rotary movement relative to each other in a vicinity of the blade end, with at least part of the running gap (11) retracted radially from the main flow path confinement into the main flow path, with the running gap (11) at the retractions no longer being confined by the main flow path confinement, but by a peripheral guiding device (10) passed by the main flow and firmly connected to the main flow path confinement and having a row of profiles (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventor: Volker Guemmer
  • Patent number: 8083479
    Abstract: A heat dissipating fan structure of a dual motor includes: a base device, having a fan base, and the fan base having a fan motor; a fan, connected and rotated by the fan motor, and the fan having a plurality of vanes; a support frame device, installed at the fan base, and having a frame-fan motor; a frame-fan device, connected and rotated by the frame-fan motor, and having a frame-fan frame, and a plurality wing plates disposed around the frame-fan frame, and the wing plates being disposed around the external periphery of the fan and perpendicular to the vane, so that the plurality wing plates on the frame-fan base can produce an auxiliary airflow to increase the airflow of the fan and give a better heat dissipating effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Enermax Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Chun-Ju Lin
  • Patent number: 8068339
    Abstract: There is provided an axial fan apparatus including an axial-flow impeller, a drive unit, and a housing. The axial-flow impeller is capable of rotating and includes a plurality of blades inclined with respect to a rotational axis direction. The drive unit rotates the axial-flow impeller. The housing is mounted with the drive unit, and includes a sidewall, and a plurality of slits that circulate gas. The sidewall is provided around the axial-flow impeller. The plurality of slits are provided to the sidewall and inclined with respect to the rotational axis direction in a direction opposed to a direction in which the plurality of blades incline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shun Kayama, Yukiko Shimizu, Kazutoshi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7726937
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine rotor stack includes one or more longitudinally outwardly concave spacers. Outboard surfaces of the spacers may be in close facing proximity to inboard tips of vane airfoils. The airfoils have dihedral and sweep.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: P. William Baumann, Om Parkash Sharma, Charles R. LeJambre, Sanjay S. Hingorani
  • Patent number: 7694518
    Abstract: An engine system incorporating an air breathing, reciprocating internal combustion engine having an inlet for air and an exhaust for products of combustion. A centripetal turbine receives products of the combustion and has a housing in which a turbine wheel is rotatable. The housing has first and second passages leading from the inlet to discrete, approximately 180°, portions of the circumference of the turbine wheel. The passages have fixed vanes adjacent the periphery of the turbine wheel and the angle of the vanes in one of the passages is different than those in the other so as to accommodate different power levels providing optimum approach angles between the gases passing the vanes and the blades of the turbine wheel. Flow through the passages is controlled by a flapper valve to direct it to one or the other or both passages depending upon the load factor for the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Todd Mathew Whiting, Carl Thomas Vuk
  • Patent number: 7481615
    Abstract: A fan and shroud assembly has a rotatable hub and plural blades extending outward from the hub. A shroud surrounding the fan controls air blast resulting from rotation of the fan. The shroud includes a guide ring spaced a predetermined distance from the periphery of the fan. The ends of the blades are connected together. The guide ring includes continuous circular undulations having alternate differing radii of curvature to reduce air swirl along the periphery of the fan. The undulations surround the fan periphery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: Halla Climate Control Corp.
    Inventor: Se-Young Park
  • Patent number: 7416386
    Abstract: A heat dissipation apparatus. A fan frame includes an air inlet, an air outlet, a passage, and a curved expansion portion. The air inlet is opposite the air outlet. The passage is between the air inlet and the air outlet, guiding airflow from the air inlet to the air outlet. The curved expansion portion is radially and outwardly extended from an inner peripheral wall of the passage at the air inlet or air outlet. An impeller is disposed in the fan frame and includes a plurality of blades. Each blade is disposed in the passage and includes an extension end extending to the curved expansion portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Shih-Hua Ho, Hao-Ming Chen, Tsung-Yu Lei, Wen-Shi Huang
  • Patent number: 7223068
    Abstract: A housing for an axial flow heat-dissipating fan includes an annular wall including an air inlet in a first end thereof and an air outlet in a second end thereof. A motor of an axial flow heat-dissipating fan is received in the annular wall. A plurality of axially extending slits are defined in a circumference of the annular wall. Each axially extending slit has a first end adjacent to the air outlet and a second end adjacent to the air inlet. A width of the first end of each axially extending slit is smaller than that of the second end of each axially extending slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Alex Horng, Wen-Kuan Chen, Mei-Chih Fang
  • Patent number: 7083381
    Abstract: A stator blade for a hydrokinetic torque converter, the blade profile having geometric characteristics that improve torque flow efficiency in the converter torque flow circuit, whereby the torque converter efficiency at high speed ratios is improved without significant adverse effects on the converter torque ratio at stall and at low speed ratios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: John Shue
  • Patent number: 6877955
    Abstract: A mixed flow turbine includes a hub attached to a rotation axis and a plurality of rotor blades. Each of the plurality of rotor blades is attached to the hub in a radial direction, and the hub is rotated based on fluid supplied to a rotation region of the plurality of rotor blades. Each of the plurality of rotor blades has a curved shape that convexly swells on a supply side of the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Higashimori, Takao Yokoyama, Takashi Mikogami, Shiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 6814661
    Abstract: A ventilator comprising a cylindrical housing the intake of which is connected to a coaxial cylindrical conduit of smaller diameter, an electric motor axially mounted in the housing, of small diameter relative to that of the housing, and on the shaft of which is fixed a wheel consisting of blades, each having a shape that all the cross-sections of a blade through planes parallel to the axis of the housing are parallel to said axis and the vanes orienting the air stream, integral with the inner side of the housing, distributed at the periphery of the housing and each including at least a curved part which, located on the side of the housing intake, is housed in an annular space comprised between the housing and the virtual cylindrical surface extending the air intake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Conseils Etudes et Recherches en Gestion de l'Air
    Inventor: Pierre Jardinier
  • Patent number: 6796768
    Abstract: A blower with improved P-Q characteristic provides a reduction in noise by sucking air inside through slits provided in an annular wall, wherein the blade thickness near a blade end s is progressively reduced toward the front end, and the location F of the maximum thickness gradually moves back toward a blade trailing edge side u2 so as to make the blade advance angle near the front end larger than in other locations. In addition, the width of a slit is made wider in sections near a spacer than in other sections. Alternatively, notches are provided in the outer perimeter of annular plates near the spacers so as to reduce the radial length of the annular plates. This arrangement improves the P-Q characteristic and reduce noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Fujinaka, Shigeru Otsuka
  • Patent number: 6524067
    Abstract: A fan guard for guiding airflow to dissipate heat generated from a heat-generating device has an airflow inlet disposed on an upper portion of the fan guard for introducing the airflow into an interior of the fan guard, an airflow outlet disposed on a lower portion of the fan guard for enabling the airflow to flow out of the fan guard and to the heat-generating device, and a plurality of ribs disposed in the airflow outlet of the fan guard for separating the airflow outlet into a plurality of isolated flow paths. In addition, the inner diameter of the airflow outlet is smaller than that of the airflow inlet, and there is a space formed between the ribs of the fan guard and the heat-generating device for enhancing the heat-dissipating efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Chang Shun Chen, Kuo-Cheng Lin, Wen-Shi Huang
  • Patent number: 6406258
    Abstract: A fan frame for encircling an impeller of a fan that includes a base and a plurality of teeth. A hole is formed on the base to form an inner periphery. The plurality of teeth is substantially perpendicular to, and mounted around the inner periphery for encircling the impeller of the fan. A plurality of clearances is formed between each one of the plurality of teeth and its adjacent tooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Tsu-liang Lin, Kuo-cheng Lin, Wen-shi Huang
  • Patent number: 6332755
    Abstract: The present invention provides a blower that improves the P-Q characteristic and reduces noise. The apparatus is a blower that sucks air inside through slits (6) provided in an annular wall (2), wherein the blade thickness near a blade end s is progressively reduced toward the front end, and the location F of the maximum thickness gradually moves back toward a blade trailing edge side u2 so as to make the blade advance angle near the front end larger than in other locations. In addition, the width of a slit is made wider in sections near a spacer than in other sections. Alternatively, notches are provided in the outer perimeter of annular plates near the spacers so as to reduce the radial length of the annular plates. This arrangement improves the P-Q characteristic and reduces noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Fujinaka, Shigeru Otsuka
  • Patent number: 6254342
    Abstract: Improvement is made to the shape of blades of a fan assembly for sucking air into an annular wall through slits in the wall, in order to increase the aerodynamic performance and energy efficiency. In the fan assembly for sucking air in through slits provided in an annular wall (2), the blade tips of an axial fan (21) are bent in the rotating direction to smoothly take in air flowing in through the slits. The axial fan is formed so that the blades except the tips thereof are in a shape of a radial or a rearward tilting blade. The angle formed by the blade forward tilting angle near the blade tip of the axial fan and the slit angle is between −5 and 15°, and the blade tip is bent in the wind blowout direction. This configuration improves the P-Q characteristic, reduces noise and improves energy efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Fujinaka, Shigeru Otsuka
  • Patent number: 6183196
    Abstract: In a blower in which air is sucked to the inside through slits formed in an annular wall, the width w and the number of slits are so set that an air flow of 20 to 40% of the maximum air flow is sucked through the slits in a state in which the static pressure is zero. By this configuration, the fan stall inhibiting effect due to the air flow through the slits and the energy loss due to the viscosity of air yielded in the slits are balanced, whereby the efficiency of the blower can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Fujinaka
  • Patent number: 6179562
    Abstract: A blower comprising an annular wall (2) formed to be spaced from blade tips of a fan (1), the annular wall having slits (6) formed at a portion opposed to the blade tips to establish communication between inner and outer peripheral portions of the annular wall, so that air is sucked into the inner peripheral portion of the annular wall through the slits as the fan rotates, characterized in that the width w of a gap of the slit is changed in radial and circumferential directions thereof, whereby the quantity of air flowing into the inner peripheral portion of the annular wall through the slits is made substantially equal over the entire circumference. By this configuration, leakage vortexes flowing from the pressure side to the suction side at the blade tips are restrained, and the P-Q characteristics are improved. At the same time, noise produced in the annular wall having slits can be restrained, so that a low-noise blower can be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Fujinaka